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  • Romance
  • Fantasy
  • Gothic
  • Cozy Mystery
  • Thriller
  • Historical

Opposites Attract Romance

I let a charming stranger sleep in my flower shop during a storm... and somehow we ended up sharing one bed. Now I can't stop craving the man I should never trust.

I only let him stay because the roads are flooded. Not because the infuriating man in the expensive suit looks at me like I'm the only thing worth noticing.

He's everything I avoid—cocky, irresistible, and convinced every problem has a price tag. I'm the florist who believes some things can't be bought.

One night trapped together turns into lingering touches, stolen kisses, and the kind of tension that leaves me wondering how much longer I can resist him.

Then he remembers exactly how I take my coffee. He reads to neighborhood kids with the same hands that make me forget how to think. Before I know it, I've fallen hard.

Right when I believe we're building forever, his past comes crashing back with a choice that could destroy everything.

If he walks away now, he won't just break my heart.

He'll take every piece of it with him.

CEO Romance

I never do reckless.

The first time I met single dad Weston Vaughn, I thought it was my meet cute.
I was in Paris looking to start over and he was right in the path of my hot coffee.
But it turns out, my knight in shining armor was just a grumpy billionaire in a custom suit.

After a nightmare year of losing not only my fiancé and my mother, I’m in desperate need of a fresh start.
And what better way than to land a teaching job at the prestigious Crestwood Academy in Chicago.

Imagine my surprise though when the handsome stranger I accidentally assaulted in front of the Eiffel Tower, turns out to be the father of one of my students.
The same stranger that made me miss my flight back home from Paris and is now standing in my classroom lecturing me.

He might be devilishly handsome, but no amount of good looks can make up for his arrogant and bossy attitude.

It takes everything I have to plaster on a smile and deal with his antics but the school is in desperate need of his participation in our annual silent auction and I’m tasked with getting him on board.

But when he shows up on my doorstep, desperate for a babysitter, I agree…if only that was the last favor he demands of me.
Next thing I know, I’m flying to the Bahamas on a private jet with him and his daughter and sailing off into the sunset on his private yacht.

Soon our back and forth banter goes from scorching jabs to fiery passion.
He pushes my boundaries in ways I never imagined, ways that have me ready to throw caution to the wind and jump in with both feet.

Romantic Comedy

When I meet Kim Sung at a friend’s wedding, I don’t make the first move. God, no. But she’s delightful and gorgeous, and she asks me to dance. Later, we head to her hotel room and…

Okay, I admit it doesn’t go well. She might be all about one-night stands, but I’m not used to having them.

That should be the end of it. I can forget about her or, more likely, obsess about it whenever I can’t sleep.

But then I see her at a second wedding. Apparently, she’s a family friend of my cousins. All three of them are getting married this summer, so she’ll be at the next two weddings as well, along with her parents.

Kim is even more beautiful than last time, and I really want the chance to prove I’m not a complete disaster in bed. I also want to take her on an actual date, but she has no interest in dating anyone.

More than anything, though, I need to avoid her because I’m too embarrassed to hold a conversation, and my brothers have found out about my unfortunate one-night stand.

Oh, no. She’s coming this way. What do I do?

Dark Fantasy Romance

MIRA enters the emperor’s deadly Trials for vengeance, armed with raw magic and fury. To win a place in an elite magical Order—and put a dagger through the tyrant’s throat—she must triumph over blood-soaked arena fights and tests of seduction and cunning. But when she dares to steal from ruthless Prince Cassius, her audacity captures his interest—prompting a deadly bargain for power that leaves her life in his hands. Caught between a morally gray prince who shares her bloodthirsty ambition, and Aric, her fiercely loyal combat instructor who fights for the resistance, the choice between duty and desire threatens to become Mira’s undoing.

SCARLETT is an illegitimate princess fighting to survive her treacherous family and murderous half-brothers. As the royal patron of the Order of Masks—a lethal, magical league of female assassins—she is in the perfect position to forge Mira into the ultimate weapon to help her take the throne. But as they orchestrate their rebellion from the shadows, Scarlett’s greatest vulnerability isn't her treason—it’s Severin, her secret seer lover, who commands shadow magic and can see the threads of the future. Their love is a death sentence, and every stolen touch risks exposing a treasonous passion the emperor will gladly execute them for.

Together, two fierce women underestimated by a brutal and corrupt empire will risk everything—including their hearts—to shatter their chains and strike back against the regime that tried to control them.

After all, that’s what the Order of Masks was created for. Three words, designed to bring down empires:

Infiltrate. Exploit. Destroy.

Paranormal Romance

I’ve spent my whole life hiding. Training. Preparing. Hoping that no one will discover my secrets. What I can do. Who I am. And I’ve gotten so good at it, sometimes even I forget.
Until them.
The wolf pack with a ruthless reputation and a penchant for revenge. The protective fighter. The charming Brit. The shy hacker. The silent mercenary. The cruel assassin.
They see more than anyone ever has before. And even with demons of their own, they give me sanctuary. A place to hide, to rest, and maybe even a place to belong.
Only it turns into so much more. Because when they touch me, everything around me ignites, and nothing matters but them.
But these wolves have secrets. And those secrets bring enemies. And when they find out who I really am?
It’s not their enemies I need to fear. It’s them.

Dark Fantasy Romance

A bite in the dark. A curse awakened. And now, the only way out is through him.

Layla was just searching for a book until something bit her in the basement of the Library. Since that night, her fingertips have darkened with strange veins of shadow. For her safety, she’s sent to a remote ranch in Montana where the skies are wide, the secrets run deep, and her new housemate is a dangerously powerful princeling with a short fuse.

He’s a cursed prince. She’s the girl unraveling his control.

Thrush is cursed with ancient magic that burns just beneath his skin. With every flare of temper, every spark of emotion, he risks unleashing something he can’t contain. He’s training to control it. To survive it. But then Layla arrives and she’s too human, too curious, and far too tempting.

A bite runs deep. A soul is split. And now, she’s caught between realms where nothing is safe, including her heart.

Fantasy Romance Retelling

She expected to attend a fairytale ball, not become a character in one…

When I wake up locked in a tower, my only companions are a bottle of champagne and a terrifyingly large bed. I came here looking for my missing best friend, but now I’m the one who needs saving.

Then he appears on my balcony, a dangerously handsome man with silver hair and eyes that burn like indigo fire. He says he’s here to rescue me, but he’s looking for his sister… my friend. And he seems to think I have answers. I don’t know who to fear more: the man who locked me in here, or the dragon shifter who looks at me like he’s finally found his treasure.

Dark Gothic Fantasy

For two centuries, Teague Blackwood has watched from the shadows.

Executed in 1823 and bound to a curse he never fully understood, he now serves as an eternal guardian, protecting one bloodline from the demonic forces drawn to its hidden power. His latest charge is Emma Carter, a brilliant Durham scholar whose research has uncovered more than forgotten history.

She has found a fragment of Gabriel’s Horn — an ancient relic capable of tearing open the boundaries between Heaven, Hell, and Earth.

Emma does not know why demons are hunting her. She does not know why her blood can awaken buried memories. And she does not know that the charming academic courting her is something far older and far more dangerous than a man.

Above them, Beatrice watches from Heaven’s Garden of Witnessing. Angels are forbidden to interfere. They observe, record, and obey.

But Beatrice has watched Teague suffer for too long.

When demonic forces gather around Durham Cathedral and Heaven refuses to act, Beatrice must choose between perfect obedience and forbidden compassion. Her choice will shatter celestial law, awaken ancient powers, and bind angel, guardian, and scholar together in a war that has only just begun.

Cozy Mystery

Charlotte Mission, ex-spy turned private investigator, is her small town’s one and only fixer. She’s the person people come to when there’s trouble afoot.

So, when her retired spy grandmother, Gamma, comes to her with a problem, she’s more than happy to help. Anything to protect the Gossip Inn and its eclectic guests.

The corpse of an unknown man has been found in the forest surrounding the inn.

It’s murder, and the handsome local detective is convinced that a guest at the inn is the culprit.

But Charlie’s not so sure. Her grandmother has plenty of enemies, and there’s a chance that one of them has finally found her.

With the pressure rising, Charlie’s got to figure out whodunnit before Gamma gets in more trouble than she can handle.

PI Mystery

When private investigator Martina Monroe is hired to identify the infant in a decades-old photograph, the case seems simple enough. But the search leads her back to the hometown she swore she’d never return to—a place haunted by old wounds, buried lies, and people desperate to keep the past hidden.

As Martina digs deeper, the questions begin to multiply. Who is the child in the photo? Why does no one want her asking questions? And what happened all those years ago that still has the town living in fear?

Then the first body turns up.

What began as a quiet investigation quickly spirals into something far more dangerous. With the killer closing in and every clue dragging her deeper into a web of secrets, Martina must uncover the truth before the past claims more victims—including her.

Because in this town, some secrets were never meant to be found.

Crime Thriller

She opened the wrong door. Now her life will never be the same.

When Lucy Foster visits her old friend, she doesn’t expect to hear a baby crying behind a locked cellar door. But what she finds shatters everything she thought she knew: a terrified teenage girl and a newborn, hidden away like a secret shame.

As Lucy’s quiet life spirals into a media frenzy, and as the town turns against her, one thing becomes clear—someone is watching. And they want Lucy to stop helping the girl in the cellar.

Because the truth is darker than anyone imagines. And unlocking it may cost Lucy everything.

Historical Whodunit

When Rex Sutherland and his employer, Eleanor, the Dowager Duchess of Drakeford, stumble upon a body during an afternoon picnic at Bircham Manor, the Dowager’s instincts for sleuthing spring to life. Rather than let a little murder spoil the festivities, she summons her trusted friend, Scotland Yard’s Inspector Whipple, to help investigate.

Invited for a weekend of high tea and high society by her friend Colonel Crispen Percival-Travers, the Dowager now faces a lineup of sophisticated suspects. Love triangles, bitter rivalries, and an endless stream of manor gossip soon reveal themselves, leaving the unlikely trio with more than a few theories. But when a second body is found and a mysterious gentleman arrives with a veiled threat, the stakes become deadlier by the hour.

With wit, charm, and more than a few cream fancies to sustain them, Rex, the Dowager, and Whipple must unravel the clues in time. Will they solve the mystery before the weekend is over?

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